Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Lakes
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 39 29
Rank change year-on-year -38 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.28% 0.41% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.85% 2.56% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £414 - £393
25th Percentile £416 - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £585
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.50%
75th Percentile £466 - £598
90th Percentile £471 - £605
North East median daily rate £438 - £498
% change year-on-year - - -17.08%

All Database & BI Skills
Tyne and Wear

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 108 39 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 15.06% 16.05% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 21 15
10th Percentile £313 £406 £371
25th Percentile £363 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £469 £638 £525
90th Percentile £532 £750 £600
North East median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £36.00 -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -43 1 £425 - 10
Data Lake
North East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Impala
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
1 1 (50.00%) Redshift Spectrum
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica